Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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mote

UK /məʊt/ · US /moʊt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of must

Forms motes must

  1. noun (literary or puristic, otherwise archaic) A small particle; a speck.
  2. verb (archaic) May or might.
  3. verb (obsolete) Must.
  4. verb (archaic) Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.
  5. noun (obsolete) A meeting for discussion. “a wardmote in the city of London”
  6. noun (obsolete) A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs. “a folk mote”
  7. noun (obsolete) A place of meeting for discussion.
  8. noun A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

modicum atom molecule particle corpuscle speck

Etymology

From Middle English mot, from Old English mot (“grain of sand; mote; atom”), from Proto-West Germanic *mot (“grain of dirt or sand, speck”). Perhaps linked to English mud.
Compare West Frisian mot (“peat dust”), Dutch mot (“dust from turf; sawdust; grit”), Low German mut (“peat dust, grit”), Norwegian mutt (“speck; mote; splinter; chip”), Italian mota (“mud”), Spanish mota (“speck”).

From Middle English moten, from Old English mōtan (“to be allowed, be able to, have the opportunity to, be compelled to, may, must”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtaną (“to be able to, have to, be delegated”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to acquire, possess, be in charge of”). Cognate with Dutch moeten (“to have to, must”), German müssen (“to have to, must”), Ancient Greek μέδω (médō, “to prevail, dominate, rule over”). Related to empty.

See moot (“a meeting”).

Clipping of remote, with allusion to the other sense of mote (“a speck of dust”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb See 1st Mot. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. noun A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.
  3. noun A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.
  4. noun The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort. Chaucer.

Etymology [See Moot, a meeting.]

Etymology [OE. mot, AS. mot.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “mote”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “mote” (best matches first).